Arriving to noone on the ice is always an unknown venture.....so I walked out about 25 feet and started to drill a hole....
...tons of ice!... 
...so I drilled about 5 holes...dropped down the Vex and away I went....I was finding depths around 10-12 feet....nada on the Vex....so away I go drilling more holes....looking for deeper water.....couldn't find anything over 12...after checking about 12 holes by this time with nothing I decided to go shallow...5 feet of water.....Drilled the hole...drop in the Vex....yeeha!...fish on the bottom....here we go....my search has paid off I figure...
I've been hearing guys yak about wax worms.....so I tip my ratso with a waxie....and down she goes...flik..flik....the fish would move up to it....and stare at it.....for 5 minutes I watched this fish stare at it....
...so I gave it a rip...moving it at least 3 feet.....and dropped it back down.....and gulp!....fish on!....pulling drag outta my little reel.....up she comes....nice little pike....on 3 lb test it was fun I'll tell ya.... 
So I move around a bit more...nothing..back to that hole I go....
Now they are stacked down there....having to leave at 4:45 to pick up Kim......and it's now 3:50....this hole turned into a perch glory hole!...
They wouldn't touch the wax worm.....
...I straightened out the little buggers though.....a small chunk of dew worm...and I couldn't keep em off....34 were iced before I left... Thank You Vexilar!!!
Upgraded all my perch today.....lots of keepers....the average was about the size of the one in the pic...9 inches.....on the large size I thought!...I did have one jumbo at 11.5....and 4 10's.....they all went back down the hole...
A great way to spend an afternoon I'll tell ya!
RJ
